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The Hammond Times Home Newspaper of the Calumet Region FINAL Price 8 Cents Formerly Hie Lata County Times Phone WEstmore 2-3100 Vol. 168 Hammond-East Chicago, Tuesday, January 29, 1963 AP, CP. UPI Phofot 33 Pages G9 got tit LziLzi Fl A rvi To Name School Supt. by June "x- 'VT- Fire Trucks Delayed By Wrong Address: 2 Bank Buildings Prevent Additional Damage Downtown Ice-encrusted walls and ice-covered wreckage are all that; remain of five downtown Hammond stores that until 12:29 p.m. Monday were thriving business establishments.

I Destroyed by fire, which began about that time, wera: Rosalee Smart Apparel 5233 Hohman Michaels; and Mann 5237 Hohman Hohman Fannie May Candy 5239y2 Hohman and Father and Son Shoes, 5241 Hohman Ave. No official figure on the total loss has been made. Un-i official damage estimates ranged from $750,000 to $1 million, but rebuilding plans already are being made. Besides the destruction of thpi 1cA 4pttV til ffe, VI (Hammond washers, television sets, air conditioning units, glues, soaps and powdered eggs. The greatest spectacle of the devastation came when the flames reached the chemical company, manufacturers of solvents and Here drums of napthas, hot coffee were amply supplied the seven and one-half hour flame of Hammond Firemen Battle a Spectacular UVJ Paynes Restaurant, 5239! Full Page of Fire Photos On Page A-3 gave the address as 5239 Hohmaa Payne's Restaurant.

GOSTYLO radioed the new ad- dress to the fire trucks and they turned around and raced back toward town. Ironically, units from No. 1 station, on Indiana street, went right by the restaurant on the way to the reported fire at the wrong address. Originally, five units answered the call downtown, an engine and aerial trucK trom No. 1 station, an engine from No.

5 and an aerial truck from No. 2, along with the emergency squad from tne central station. However, when Asst. Chief Bonner and Chief Inspector Verlyn Mack surveyed the situation, they called for addi-tional units. Twenty minutes after the first call.

Engine No. 4 was dispatched and five minutes later three more engines from stations 3. 7 and 8. The final call for help was put in at 2:10 p.m., when additional equipment was needed and East Chicago was asked to send an aerial truck and a pumper. I fHE LAST unit to arrive was an aerial truck sent by the Lansing Fire Dept.

Hammond offi-cials report this was done volun-tarily by the department and was "greatly appreciated." Because two-thirds of Hammond's men and equipment were fighting the fire, both the Munster and Calumet City fire departments volunteered their service. A truck from Munster was placed in the No. 4 station on Calumet avenue, near City Hall, on a stand-by basis, and Calumet City answered one call, a falsa alarm, for the Hammond Dept. Hammond officials said there was no necde for the Calumet City equipment to move to Hammond, because it was close by and could be called out from its own sta-tion. There were about loo ment from (Continued on Tage 2, Col.

1) -COLDER- WEATHER Chaice of snow tonight, low about 5. Wednesday, colder, chance of snow, high 10-15. Sunset today, 5:02 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday, 7:06 a.m. Indiana colder.

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10 a m. 10 11 a m. 12 N. Times Index Classified Ads B6 9 Comics B4-5 Editorials Living at Ease B3 Markets AI9 Obituaries A19 Snorts Bt-2 Theater Page R6 TV Previews A10 TV Programs A 10 Voice of (he People Earl Wilson B4 Woman's Pages lc A16 Hammond Considers Applicants Board Expected To Pick 'Outsider' For Superintendent Hammond's Board of Education has opened its compaign to obtain a superintendent to succeed R. B.

Miller, who is retiring' next June after more than 40 years here, three of them as superintendent. Business Director Donald Gavit announced a tentative timetable at Mnndav nieht's board meeting for filling the post: March 1 is a cutoff date for taking applications with the fHd of choices narrowed bv April 1 and an appointment made by June 1. THE board is fairlv well decided to bring in new blood and accordingly is casting about for prospects from Massachusetts to Cali fornia. No restriction has been placed on promoting from within the facultv here, however. No special qualifications have been established except that the board prefers someone with a PhD and under 55.

A $20,000 salary will be paid, althonsh the board might pay more if necessary to obtain an exceptionally well qualified candidate. Gavit reported that six applications, none from the Hammond faculty, have been received. IV OTHER matters Monday night, the board: 1. Purchased the narking lot across from Technical-Vocational H'2h School for $30,000 from the Frie-Lackawanna Railroad. The lot has been he'd under a lease from tbf railroad previously.

2. Rejected a portable lunch proeram advocated bv board member Mrs. Claire Stern for Wahienton School in lieu of a cafeteria. Instead, a new stove will be installed. The board warn ed that if the cafeteria continues onerating in the red, it may be closed- 3.

Placed clerical employes un der the same $12 500 major medical insurance and $2,500 term life insurance programs recently ne gotiated by the faculty. 4. DECIDED to nay office ex penses for three child welfare and attendance officers to avoid a perennial disnute with the County Council over the amount the coun ty will pay. Cost of teleohone serv ice, estimated bv Gavit to be about $600 annually, is the chief item. 5.

Rejected an offer from an undisclosed Whiting church to purchase a portion of the Clark High School athletic field for a parochial school site. Although not intended for any immediate use the portion should be held for fu ture athletic plant needs such as tennis courts, the board explained. 6. Appointed Winston Becker principal for the future $5 million Morton Senior High School, and Ross King, principal at the $900, 000 Roland B. Miller School, now in the planning stage.

Becker is now principal at Morton and King as assistant principal at Harding School. Britain's Euromart Bid Fails BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP)-Ef- forts to keep alive Britain's bid to enter the Common Market failed today despite a last-minute intervention by President Kennedy's administration. Five of the six Common Market countries fought on Britain's behalf but were unable to overcome France's opposition. AS THE negotiating ministers for the six Common Market countries recessed for lunch, West German Economic Minister Lud-wig Erhard told reporters: The negotiations are r. They have failed.

We will come together again this afternoon, but no progress at all has been made. The five are still in agreement that Britain should be brought into the Common Market but they cannot convince France." Just before the ministers met, U.S. Ambassador John Tuthill had handed Erhard a statement expressing the U.S. government's concern at the bitter dispute raging among France and the other five members of the European Economic Community West Ger- many, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy and Luxembourg. TUTHILL met with Erhard shortly before ministers of the six market nations gathered behind.

closed doors to resume their battling over Britain's membership application. France was standing fast in opposition to the British, determined to pursue President Charles de Gaulle's dream of a new, French-led Europe with American as well as British influence reduced. American sources declined to say whether the communication was written by Kennedy or only authorized by him. It was understood, however, that it carried clearly the stamp of the President's thinking. Mother, 10 Children Die in Fire CHANDLER, Que.

(AP) A young mother ran back into her flaming house and perished today with 10 of her 12 children in a vain rescue attempt. Polices aid Fernande Dupuis, 33, tried to save the sleeping youngsters aged 2 to 13. The father and two older chil dren, Rene, 13, and Chilles, 15, es caped. Police said an oil stove explo sion caused the fire in St. Ade laide Parish near this town, 320 miles northeast of Quebec City in the Gaspe Peninsula.

The Rev. Paul-Emile Lamarre, parish priest, said Dupuis told him he got up and lighted the oil stove at 4:30 a.m. SHORTLY after 5 a.m., neigh bors heard an explosion and the house broke out in flames. The dead children were Marie- Paulle, 13; Fernande, 12; Yves, 10; Rosaita, Rossaire, Mad eleine, Estelle, Helena, 3 and 2-year-old twins Fernand and Andre. er, said an electrical short circuit or the heating lamps used to keep the young pigs warm could have started the fire.

The fire broke out about 5 a.m. A passing motorist turned in the alarm a few minutes later when he arrived in Lowell. five stores, fire and water dam age was done to the walls of the Calumet National Bank building 5231 Hohman and the Mer cantile National Bank building, 5243 Hohman Ave. The fire was contained between the two buildings, which acted like canyon walls while it raged out of control. CONSIDERABLE smoke damage was reported at the Gold-blatt Bros, store at 5206 Hohman across the street and a block away from the scene.

Also suffering smoke damage was Jack Fox and Sons store, 5219 Hohman Ave. Both of these stores suffered side effects because of the heavy winds which whipped the thick, black smoke around the corner of the bank building, down Fayette street and into the Goldblatt building. Three entrances to the department store, two on Hohman and one on Rimbach street, were closed to keep the smoke out. Four windows of the Illinois Bell Telephone right behind the fire scene, were broken by heat, Injuries to firemen were mostly minor, many of them resulting from slipping on the ice that formed quickly everywhere Others were cut by flying glass However, none was injured seri ously enough to leave the scene The five stores, all part of the same one-story, brick building, were owned by the Hammond Kleihege Co. Carl A.

Kleihege president of the company, who was surveying the damage this morning, said he had no idea what the loss to the building would be. However, he did say the area would be rebuilt as soon as possible. KARL ROSENTHAL, president of Rosalee's, announced today that "plans are being formulated to bring downtown Hammond a more beautiful, more spacious, more modern Rosalee." Street Dept. crews were working this morning to clean some of the ice away from the curbs and sewers to let the water run off. The department also was on the scene Monday evening to salt the street down.

Hohman avenue, for about three blocks, was a solid sheet of ice from the water and spray thrown on the fire. Hohman and the adjoining streets that were blocked during the course of the fire were opened to traffic shortly after 7 p.m.: Hammond and Calumet City Police and Hammond Civil Defense auxiliary police directed traffic; during the time the streets were: blocked by emergency equipment. ONE OK the biggest puzzles' concerning the fire was the mis take in addresses, that authori-j ties indicate could have been the difference in a small fire and the conflagration that resulted. Capt. Walter Gostylo, Hammond fire switchboard operator, said he got a call from an unidentified man at 12:29 p.m., saying there was a fire in a kitchen at 5932 Hohman Ave.

Gostylo said he did not specify restaurant. The operator said he dispatched the necessary trucks to the given address but while they were on their way checked and saw there was no such address. He then dispatched a truck to 6932 Hohman Ave. as a safeguard. Gostylo said that the first units to reach the given address re ported there was no fire.

How- ever, by this time the same caller jhad phoned again and this time After the Downtown Hammond Million 1955 Warehouse Fire firm, to the feed storehouse, to the lumber company and to the six-story section of the warehouse loaded to capacity with everything from tallow to bananas. The goods included refrigera tors, machine parts, furniture, paint, soda pop, battery acid, Fire Blaze Times Photos by Richard Rudzinski) heating up, set off a series of explosions, blowing steel rims 100 feet into the air. The detonations could be heard 20 blocks away, FIREMEN were hampered in controlling the spread of the flames by 32-miIe-per-hour winds from the west. Fifteen firemen barely escaped injury when they moved an ex tension ladder truck just seconds before a section of the west wall the warehouse collapsed. During the fire, 79 persons were evacuated from the Township Shelter, a home for destitute aged, when sparks and smoke periled the structure less than a block from the area.

One section of the warehouse razed by the flames was 90 years old and was one of Hammond's THE AREA swept by the flames was bounded by the New York Central Railroad tracks in the south, the Indiana-Illinois bound ary (Industrial Road on the west, the Grand Calumet. River on the north and Hohman avenue on the east. Firemen succeeded in saving filled grain elevators at the Pratt plant and 130,000 gallons of naph tha in 10 railroad stationary tanks at American Chemical That fire was Hammond's most destructive since 1901 when the G. H. Hammond Packing tli ritv'n founding industry, was destroyed bv flames, never to be rebuilt.

Firemen Get Coffee. Food and Clothing Food and, more especially, Ruins Recall $4 The spectacular blaze which demolished five downtown Hammond stores Monday recalled for several Hammond residents the last major fire in the city. It happened on May 5, 1955 when a $4 million fire destroyed the Great Lakes Warehouse and most of the American Chemical Service Co. building and sections of the Pratt Food Co. and Paxton Lumber Co.

along Hammond's Industrial Road factory district. Eight firemen suffered injuries, three requiring brief hospitalization, in their 20-hour battle against the flames which leaped 300 feet in the air and explosions which could be heard for miles. THE BLAZE reportedly mush roomed from a rubbish fire when gusty winds flipped part of a burning cardboard box under a warehouse loading platform. Before the flames began dying down about midnight of the same day, 150 firemen from Hammond, East Chicago, Gary, Whiting, Calumet City, Lansing and Munster had shared in battling the blaze. Some 65 Hammond firemen were on the scene the next day, working to douse the last remaining embers and, by 10 a.m.

of the sec ond day, it was estimated that about 2,000,000 gallons of water had been poured through the win dows of the two top floors of the warehouse. FROM THE warehouse, the flames spread to the chemical during the battle of the five-store blaze in Downtown Hammond on Monday. I Firemen, policemen and Civil 'M coffee and a respite from Defense workers at least 200 in all, received the sustaining food andiSht. Phillip Bowden, manager of the1oldcst landmarks, Fire Kills Pigs Worth $5,000 LOWELL About 70 suckling pigs and an undetermined number of sows died in a fire early today on the John Mc-Ginley farm just north of "here. Loss was initially estimated drink from a number of sources Carl Kleihege, president of Ham- mond-Kleihege Corp.

which owned the buildings housing the five stores, supplied 20 gallons of hot stuff, along with sandwiches and doughnuts, which he ordered from Condes Restaurant in the Roberts-dale section of Hammond. Coffee also came from Gold-blatts Department Store restau rant and the LaSalle Grill, both in Downtown Hammond, which furnished eight gallons each. FIREMEN, in most cases cn cased in ice, were taken to the basement of the Bell Telephone across the alley from the fir Bell office, said he and others jhad to chiP ice off the firemen's coats and trousers, sometimes using monkey wrenches to break the frozen buckles loose, "The toughest thing was get ting them out of their clothes," uowacn commented. Then we got 48 pair of sox at Jack Fox Sons so they could get dry feet." Mrs. Williams V.

Zeller of 1695 Shirley Calumet City, at least three miles from the fire scene, prepared soup and other food in her home for the firemen. Hammond police then picked up the food and carried it to the fire scene, at more than $5,000. Firemen from Lowell and Lake Dalccarlia fought the blaze for more than two hours, saving the main barn. Flames broke out in a small barn attached to the main one. James McGinley, son of the own-.